Teacher of Humanity

Author(s): C S Mallinath
Publisher: Pulchandji Ved

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through the help of H. H. the Maharaja of Gwalior and the never-ceasing efforts of Shri Vijaya Indra Suriji, the learned successor of the departed Mahatma.
Such is in brief outline the life of Vijaya Dharma Suri. Let us now study the hero in different aspects as a man, as a monk, as a scholar and writer, as an editor and critic, and as a founder of Institutions.
As A MAN As a man, Vijaya Dharma Suri, had an inspiring and amiable personality. Anger was thoroughly absent in him. He was all love and compassion. He as a complete observer of the great and noble doctrine of dhimsa. From his boyhood to the end of his life, he was always strong-willed. What ap)perred to him to be correct, he was ready and willing to do, irrespective of what others might think or sar. His sincerity, simplicity and modesty attracted many people to him. When the title of Shastravisharada Jainacharya was conferred on him at Benares, he accepted it modestly not because he personally deserved it but because it was conferred on a Jain Sadhu! by a consensus of learned Pandits under the distinguished presidency of H. H. the Maharaja of Benares who was himself an orthodox Hindu. He regarded all honours done to him as honours done to his religion and community.